The Bush Fire (Charles Harpur Poems)
'TIS nine o'clock:-to bed! cried Egremont,Who with his youthful household (for 'tis nowLong since) inhabited a lonely homeIn the Australian ...
'TIS nine o'clock:-to bed! cried Egremont,Who with his youthful household (for 'tis nowLong since) inhabited a lonely homeIn the Australian ...
(The exile Meliboeus finds Tityrus in possession of his own farm,restored to him by the emperor Augustus, and a conversation ...
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.—Jeremiah xxxii. 38.IHear, O Israel! and plead my cause ...
Thou must have altered in the two long yearsWhich thou hast passed since I beheld thee, Ann!For then thou wast ...
Across the trackless seas I go, No matter when or where,And few my future lot will know, And fewer still ...
TO THE AMERICAN PRIVATE IN THE GREAT WAR Every one of you won the war- You and you and you- ...
O'Shea was a big railway ganger, clean-hearted, and clean-limbed and shy,With a glint of grey hair at his temples, and ...
I saw him stand, a Polar man, Cold anger in his frigid eye,Facing it wild, unruly clan Who poised their ...
Kind gentlemen and ladies fair,I have a word or two to say,If you have got the time to spare,Sit down, ...
WHERE are they all, those once so fondly cherished,Whose lips respond no more, whose forms have perish'd,On whom we vainly ...
"There are tears and wails in the old brown house On the hillside steep today,Though the sunlight gleams on the ...
When the world is burning,Fired within, yet turning Round with face unscathed;Ere fierce flames, uprushing,O'er all lands leap, crushing, ...
LOVE we the warmth and light of tropic lands, The strange bright fruit, the feathery fanspread leaves, The glowing mornings ...
I STOOD alone in purple space and sawThe burning walls of the world, like wings of flame,Circling the sphere: there ...
As one who, groping in a narrow stair, Hath a strong sound of bells upon his ears, Which, being at ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
The banked oars fell an hundred strong, And backed and threshed and ground, But bitter was the rowers' song As ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun, If that hypothesis of theirs be sound' Said Ida; 'let us ...
Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee, I, God, the spirit of man? Wherefore now these ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
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